黄皮 (huángpí) · wampee (a small fruit of south China)

Meanings

1 wampee (a small fruit of south China)
2 yellow-toned skin; someone with yellow-toned skin

About the ingredient

水果 Fruit · In season: summer

Grape-sized yellow fruits that grow in bunches, with finely hairy skin and translucent white flesh, sweet-sour, around a few large seeds. Eaten fresh in summer in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Also called 黄皮果

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

黄皮是一种酸甜的水果，夏天在广东很常见。

Huángpí shì yì zhǒng suāntián de shuǐguǒ, xiàtiān zài Guǎngdōng hěn chángjiàn.

Wampee is a sweet and sour fruit, common in Guangdong in summer.

HSK 7-9

我是黄皮，穿荧光色会显得很黑。

Wǒ shì huángpí, chuān yíngguāngsè huì xiǎnde hěn hēi.

My skin is yellow-toned, so neon colors make me look dark.

HSK 7-9

这个色号的口红很适合黄皮女生。

Zhège sèhào de kǒuhóng hěn shìhé huángpí nǚshēng.

This shade of lipstick suits girls with yellow-toned skin.

Tips

usage

In beauty and fashion talk, 黄皮 is skin with a yellow undertone, the commonest East Asian complexion. Advice for it is about colors that are 显白 (make skin look fairer) rather than 显黑 (make it look darker).

culture

The wampee is a grape-sized fruit with thin yellow skin that ripens in early summer in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. Folk wisdom says it settles the stomach after too many 荔枝 (lychees).